I bet you didnt know that

Miley Byrne · 18-01-2017 3:05pm

runawaybishop wrote: »

With a sufficiently large piece of paper and assuming you can fold it as much as you want you would only have to fold it 42 times and it's thickness would reach the moon.

Just on a similar theme, any piece of paper can only be folded in half seven times

diomed · 18-01-2017 3:22pm

Huguette Clark died on May 24, 2011.
Her father W A Clark was born on January 8, 1839.
172 years, 4 months between the birth of the father and death of the daughter.
He was 67 when she was born. She died at 104 years.

mloc123 · 18-01-2017 3:23pm

Advbrd wrote: »

A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 inches by 3-1/2 inches.

POA right?

ILikeBoats · 18-01-2017 3:25pm

Miley Byrne wrote: »

Just on a similar theme, any piece of paper can only be folded in half seven times

Nearly sure Mythbusters did it eight times. They got a piece of paper the size of an airplane hanger or something like that

diomed · 18-01-2017 3:58pm

Almost all thoroughbred horses (racehorses to the unwashed) are descended in direct male line (father to father about 24 generations) from the Darley Arabian, bought in Aleppo, Syria, in 1704. Thomas Darley, who bought the horse, shipped it back to England. Darley never saw the horse again. He died in Syria.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 18-01-2017 4:30pm

ILikeBoats wrote: »

Nearly sure Mythbusters did it eight times. They got a piece of paper the size of an airplane hanger or something like that

Seven is the usual limit but Eleven has been achieved.

harry Bailey esq · 18-01-2017 8:25pm

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

Strictly speaking it stands for Bayerische Motoren Werke it just translates to the same initials.

He's right you know.As an aside,people consider bananas to be a fruit, botanically speaking though they are classed as berries,whilst strawberries,botanically speaking are not true berries,and are classed as fruit.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 18-01-2017 8:46pm

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

He's right you know.As an aside,people consider bananas to be a fruit, botanically speaking though they are classed as berries,whilst strawberries,botanically speaking are not true berries,and are classed as fruit.

The old saying... Intelligence is knowing Tomatoes are a fruit but wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.

Rhubarb is a vegetable.

maudgonner · 18-01-2017 8:54pm

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

Rhubarb is a vegetable.

In the middle ages rhubarb was imported to Europe from Asia and was more expensive than spices such as saffron and even opium.

IvyTheTerrible · 18-01-2017 9:06pm

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

The old saying... Intelligence is knowing Tomatoes are a fruit but wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.

Rhubarb is a vegetable.

Leeks are just leaves.

Four Phucs Ache · 18-01-2017 9:12pm

Goose bumps appear when our body is cold and show up when teeny tiny muscles stuck to our hair follicles flex, causing hair in these follicles to stand, creating a heat-trapping layer in the skin.

Cartouche · 18-01-2017 9:43pm

Strawberries are the only fruit that has seeds on the outside

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 18-01-2017 9:55pm

Cartouche wrote: »

Strawberries are the only fruit that has seeds on the outside

And Cashews

scamalert · 18-01-2017 10:10pm

meetings in japan are usually held while standing up

- was told that,while it seems strange one,but given culture wouldn't be surprised since imagine saves time and down to business there.

harry Bailey esq · 18-01-2017 10:11pm

maudgonner wrote: »

In the middle ages rhubarb was imported to Europe from Asia and was more expensive than spices such as saffron and even opium.

I get loads of wild rhubarb behind me house,never bothered taking any and making something out of them.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 18-01-2017 10:15pm

scamalert wrote: »

meetings in japan are usually held while standing up - was told that,while it seems strange one,but given culture wouldn't be surprised since imagine saves time and down to business there.

Meetings in Japan can seem interminably long. They take forever to reach a decision, in my experience.

This is a decent summary...http://www.worldbusinessculture.com/Business-Meetings-in-Japan.html

maudgonner · 18-01-2017 10:15pm

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

I get loads of wild rhubarb behind me house,never bothered taking any and making something out of them.

I feckin' love rhubarb and I'm having an awful craving for it now

(If you don't want to make tarts or crumbles, rhubarb & ginger jam is fairly easy to make and it's lovely!)

Cartouche · 18-01-2017 11:09pm

The scientific name for the Black Rat is Rattus rattus

Yourself isit · 18-01-2017 11:12pm

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

The old saying... Intelligence is knowing Tomatoes are a fruit but wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.

Rhubarb is a vegetable.

Tomatoes are a culinary veg apparently. Hat tip David Mitchell.

Zaph · 18-01-2017 11:13pm

Cartouche wrote: »

The scientific name for the Black Rat is Rattus rattus

The scientific name for the Southern Giraffe is Giraffa giraffa.

GHOST MGG · 18-01-2017 11:17pm

France was still executing people by guillotine when the first star wars movie was released......

xper · 19-01-2017 1:45am

Zaph wrote: »

The scientific name for the Southern Giraffe is Giraffa giraffa.

Puffinus puffinus is the scientific name of a seabird that breeds in large numbers in burrows on islands and remote headlands around North Atlantic coasts. It's English name is ...

... the Manx Shearwater.

The Puffin's scientific name is Fratercula arctica.

IvyTheTerrible · 19-01-2017 3:18am

The English words for meats like pork and beef have a French origin, because it was the rich French-speaking Norman aristocracy that ate them, while the corresponding animal names are of Anglo Saxon origin, because it was the peasants who looked after them.

Ave Sodalis · 19-01-2017 4:15am

diomed wrote:

Almost all thoroughbred horses (racehorses to the unwashed) are descended in direct male line (father to father about 24 generations) from the Darley Arabian, bought in Aleppo, Syria, in 1704. Thomas Darley, who bought the horse, shipped it back to England. Darley never saw the horse again. He died in Syria.

All of them come from three founding sires: Darley Arabian, Byerley Turk, and Godolphin Arabian. A few more stallions helped with breeding lines, including a single stallion who was thought to be responsible for the grey colouring. If you trace male lines only, most of descended from Darley Arabian, but when you include female lineage, most of descended from Godolphin Arabian.

In all, Thoroughbreds (as the name suggests) are horridly inbred but do cross with some of our own native breeds to make some fantastic sport horses.

Peregrinus · 19-01-2017 4:20am

sup_dude wrote: »

All of them come from three founding sires: Darley Arabian, Byerley Turk, and Godolphin Arabian. A few more stallions helped with breeding lines, including a single stallion who was thought to be responsible for the grey colouring. If you trace male lines only, most of descended from Darley Arabian, but when you include female lineage, most of descended from Godolphin Arabian.

In all, Thoroughbreds (as the name suggests) are horridly inbred but do cross with some of our own native breeds to make some fantastic sport horses.

Plus, their genealogy is reliably and comprehensively recorded for many generations back, which makes them ideal subjects for genetic studies.

CalamariFritti · 19-01-2017 7:32am

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

The old saying... Intelligence is knowing Tomatoes are a fruit but wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.

Rhubarb is a vegetable.

Which is quite untrue. Knowing tomatoes are a fruit is education not intelligence.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 19-01-2017 10:11am

CalamariFritti wrote: »

Which is quite untrue. Knowing tomatoes are a fruit is education not intelligence.

Actually knowing something is not education, it's knowledge - which is the word I intended using originally.

CalamariFritti · 19-01-2017 11:36am

And knowledge comes from either experience or education. Or from intelligence when knowledge comes from deduction.

I'd say the tomatoes thing comes for most people from education. They learned that.

Could be two right sticklers clashing here :pac:

harry Bailey esq · 19-01-2017 2:30pm

Candie wrote: »

The words silent and listen use the same letters.

Mother in law is an anagram of woman Hitler

BrokenArrows · 19-01-2017 3:55pm

GHOST MGG wrote: »

France was still executing people by guillotine when the first star wars movie was released......

Thats brilliant. Had to google that to be sure, couldnt believe it.

19-01-2017 3:59pm

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Mother in law is an anagram of woman Hitler

and David Ginola is an anagram of vagina dildo

Squall Leonhart · 19-01-2017 4:11pm

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Mother in law is an anagram of woman Hitler

Cash lost in 'em

is an anagram of

Slot machines

everlast75 · 19-01-2017 4:22pm

GHOST MGG wrote: »

France was still executing people by guillotine when the first star wars movie was released......

to be fair, those executed were those that gave spoilers before viewings of "The Empire Strikes Back"

Red Kev · 19-01-2017 4:24pm

Far more barbaric than the guillotine is the Garrotte, which was used in Spain up until 1959. People were sentenced to death by Garrotte since then, but these have been commuted.

Andorra officially abolished it in 1990, but the last execution there took place centuries ago.

Slavery was officially abolished in Mauritania in 1980.

At least 7,500 people and probably more like 12-15,000 people committed suicide, died in Berlin alone in suicide pacts or murder suicides in the 2-3 days between the suicide of Hitler and the surrender of the German troops on May 2nd 1945. Thousands more did likewise around Germany.
Fear of reprisals on Nazi officials and fear of murder and mass rape by Soviet troops were the main cause.

By the time the Soviet troops took Berlin on May 2nd, the seat of Government under Admiral Doenitz had moved to Flensburg on the Danish border and German troops were taking orders from there, not Berlin.

valoren · 19-01-2017 4:24pm

The Saturn V rocket at full throttle generated enough energy at lift off to light up New York City for 75 minutes.

Red Kev · 19-01-2017 4:34pm

There are 8 capital cities in Africa that are further west than Dublin.

Lisbon is as well.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 19-01-2017 4:40pm

Red Kev wrote: »

Far more barbaric than the guillotine is the Garrotte, which was used in Spain up until 1959. People were sentenced to death by Garrotte since then, but these have been commuted.

Andorra officially abolished it in 1990, but the last execution there took place centuries ago.

Slavery was officially abolished in Mauritania in 1980.

At least 7,500 people and probably more like 12-15,000 people committed suicide, died in Berlin alone in suicide pacts or murder suicides in the 2-3 days between the execution of Hitler and the surrender of the German troops on May 2nd 1945. Thousands more did likewise around Germany.
Fear of reprisals on Nazi officials and fear of murder and mass rape by Soviet troops were the main cause.

By the time the Soviet troops took Berlin on May 2nd, the seat of Government under Admiral Doenitz had moved to Flensburg on the Danish border and German troops were taking orders from there, not Berlin.

Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide in the German command bunker on April 30th 1945?

ahlookit · 19-01-2017 4:46pm

xper wrote: »

Puffinus puffinus is the scientific name of a seabird that breeds in large numbers in burrows on islands and remote headlands around North Atlantic coasts. It's English name is ...

... the Manx Shearwater.

The Puffin's scientific name is Fratercula arctica.

ON the subject of scientific names for birds...

The "Subbuteo" name is derived from the neo-Latin scientific name Falco subbuteo (a bird of prey commonly known as the Eurasian hobby), after a trademark was not granted to its creator Peter Adolph to call the game "Hobby"

Skylinehead · 19-01-2017 4:47pm

valoren wrote: »

The Saturn V rocket at full throttle generated enough energy at lift off to light up New York City for 75 minutes.

90% of rocket weight is fuel needed to get 5% of the rocket into orbit.

Red Kev · 19-01-2017 5:40pm

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide in the German command bunker on April 30th 1945?

Yes, sorry, of course it was suicide. Getting ahead of myself there.

Slightly off topic, but I once met Traudl Junge in Munich around 1995. She was one of Hitler's secretaries and featured a lot in Downfall.

If you're ever in Munich the Schelling Salon in Schellingstrasse is the only pub there that can claim to have been the local pub for both Lenin and Hitler, though not at the same time. Lenin lived there from ca. 1900-03, Hitler first arrived there in 1913. Lenin was an illegal immigrant the whole time he was there and lived under several aliases, including "Lenin".

Hitler got a lifetime ban in the pub for not paying his bills. The great granddaughter of the first owner now runs the place (or did up until a few years ago), her great garandfather opened it in thee 1870's. the interior is pretty much the same as it was back then too.

Bandana boy · 19-01-2017 5:49pm

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Mother in law is an anagram of woman Hitler

230 posts is the longest any thread on boards has gone till somebody mentioned Hitler

Cartouche · 19-01-2017 7:24pm

Bandana boy wrote: »

230 posts is the longest any thread on boards has gone till somebody mentioned Hitler

/thread

Mister Vain · 19-01-2017 7:29pm

An average fart is made of:
59% nitrogen
21% hydrogen
9% carbon dioxide
7% methane
4% oxygen
1% hydrogen sulfide - that's the smelly part.

An Indian tribe in South America called the Yanomami, use farting as a greeting.

A man in Afghanistan farted in front of his family, and out of disgust left the house for 20 years.

Sciprio · 19-01-2017 7:30pm

You can actually fit all the planets between the earth and the moon and considering the giant red spot on jupiter is bigger than the earth that gives you an idea of how much space is between the earth and the moon even though it's "Just up there"

The flying mouse · 19-01-2017 8:13pm

The term sideburns is a 19th-century corruption of the original burnsides, named after American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside,

A man known for his unusual facial hairstyle that connected thick sideburns by way of a moustache, but left the chin clean-shaven.

https://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjDzJXt9M7RAhUJtxQKHQ7tCvEQFggrMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSideburns&usg=AFQjCNFm8MatUHs33fzM-k3HJ_R9bUghdQ

stimpson · 19-01-2017 9:11pm

Skylinehead wrote: »

90% of rocket weight is fuel needed to get 5% of the rocket into orbit.

What is the other 5%?

Skylinehead · 19-01-2017 9:28pm

stimpson wrote: »

What is the other 5%?

Rocket motors, fuel tanks (minus fuel) for the multiple stages of launch.

Nekarsulm · 19-01-2017 10:18pm

The Mercedes three pointed star symbol signifies the three elements for which Mercedes built engines. Air, Land and Water.
For a short time Mercedes considered using a four pointed star symbol, as they envisaged the eventual construction of engines for space travel.

Cartouche · 19-01-2017 10:20pm

Pink wasn’t always a girl’s color and blue a boy’s color — in fact, it was once the other way around.
The distinction of blue for boys and pink for girls didn’t take full hold until the middle of the 20th century

the14thwarrior · 19-01-2017 10:41pm

When Lee Marvin was in Ireland filming The Big Red One, the only time he ate was after 14 days, one morning - it was a piece of brown bread. He drank the rest of the days. The papers happened to take a picture and if you look closely you can see a piece of brown bread in his hand. FACT! (i have a few more but i'll keep you all in suspense)

I bet you didnt know that

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